Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
In my personal life, I am very contemplative.
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.
I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.